Hay-fork.



A. A. PARISH.-

HAY FORK. APPLICATION FILED NOV. 17, 190B.

923,072. Patented May 25, 1909.

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ARTHUR A. PARISH, OF WIOHITA, KANSAS.

HAY-FORK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed November 17, 1908.

Patented May 25, 1909.

Serial No. 463,102.

To all whomii may concern:

Be it known that I, ARTHUR A. PARISH, a

citizen of the United States, residing at Wichita, in the county ofSedgwick and State of Kansas, have invented. new and usefulImconstruction of fork which may be driven into the side of a rick orstack of hay, straw A or {other stacked material and withdrawn to removeailarge amount of the hay, straw or other material without injury to thetop or sides of the stack or impairing the stability ofthe stack.

c In the accompanying drawing :Figure 1 is a perspective view of a hayfork embodying my invention. Fig. .2 is atop lan view of the forkproper. Fig. 3 is a si e view of I the same.

' Referring to the drawing, 1 designates a I handleof suitable lengthandmade of suitable material. Thishandle is provided at its rear end withtransverse grips 2 and at a suitable point in advance thereof with agrip 3. A shank 4 projects from the forward end of the handle, and maybe integral with said handle or. made independently thereof and securedthereto. This shank is formed or W provided at its forward end with ahead 5 tapering to a penetrating point 6, and from said I head extend apair of'rearwardly extending arms 7 disposed on opposite sides of theplane of the shank. The arms curve outwardly and rearwardly in divergentrelation, and also curve downwardly, and terminate in pointed ends 8. Bythis construction the arms form gathering hooks which converge to thepointed head and provide a hooked V-shape d fork which may be easilyinserted into the side of a stack and withdrawn with a large quantity ofthe material, without displacing the remainder of the material andcausing collapse of the stack. This device is in this respect superiorto an ordinary pitchfork, which cannot be used without danger of injuryto the stack. It will, of course, be understood that the shank, head andarms may be made of iron, steel or wood or partially of wood and metal,as may be desired.

Havin thus fully described the invention, what is c aimed as new is Afork comprising a handle provided with a penetrating head, and armsdiverging rearwardly from said head, said arms being dis posed onopposite sides of the plane of the handle and curved downwardly andrearwardly from the head.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ARTHUR A. PARISH.

Witnesses:

HERBERT W. TURNER, J. N. CHAPPLE.

